Keep your garden buzzing

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week’s programme is all about being kinder to the earth and the creatures we share it with. Guy Barter meets the founder of Riverford Organic Farmers, Guy Singh-Watson, to discover how he turned a family dairy farm into a byword for sustainable food. Dave Goulson, author of Silent Earth – Averting the Insect Apocalypse shares his thoughts on how gardeners can be more active in the fight to save our bees, butterflies and all manner of threatened insects. Plus RHS Gardening Advisor Nikki Barker offers advice to gardeners who grow on sandy soil.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:06.4	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses.
0:13.2	Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars.
0:17.4	Race you, let's go.
0:19.5	Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you, let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,
0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:30.8	For days when gardeners waged war on pests and diseases and weeds are now passed,
0:37.3	we take a more balanced view,
0:39.4	and we don't think of pests as being pests as such,
0:42.5	more part of the garden ecosystem
0:44.3	that can be managed without the use of chemicals.
0:48.1	And with today's lineup of guests,
0:50.3	I'll be exploring why a more natural approach is better.
0:53.9	We're hearing from Guy Singh-W Watson, who transformed his family dairy farm into an organic
0:59.2	business that now delivers veg boxes to 50,000 customers a week.
1:05.0	Biologist Dave Goulson is here to tell us why we need to look after our insects.
1:16.6	And Nikki Barker will be offering advice on how to grow a great garden on sandy soil.
1:23.6	I'm Guy Bartor. Let's get gardening with the RHS. When Guy S.
1:29.5	When Guy Sink Watson started running the family business, Riverford Farm, chemicals were banished.
1:35.2	And as a self-confessed vegetable nerd, he decided to start a veg delivery scheme.
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